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A study that is scheduled for publication in Clinical Pediatrics found that 27% of food-insecure families in the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children at two centers in Cincinnati admitted watering down infant formula or reducing feedings.

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A study in Diabetes Care found low-income, food-insecure diabetes patients showed higher mean A1C values and had lower fruit and vegetable intake and self-efficacy than their food-secure counterparts. However, researchers noted greater A1C and self-efficacy improvements in food-insecure patients following educational intervention compared with the other group.

Low-income mothers facing food insecurity in their household were more likely to practice restrictive and pressuring feeding than were those who weren't food insecure, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers noted that food-insecure mothers practiced these controlling feeding styles because they worried more about their child being overweight or obese in the future than other mothers did.

Low-income mothers with babies younger than 6 months who reported being food insecure showed controlling feeding practices -- such as food restriction and pressuring -- which might increase the risk of childhood obesity, a study revealed. Researchers also found that food-insecure mothers were more likely than non-insecure counterparts to be worried that their child might become overweight. The results were presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting and will be published in Pediatrics.

Food-insecure mothers were more likely than food-insecure fathers and childless women to suffer from obesity, according to a study in Social Science and Medicine. Researchers said poor mothers may eat only once daily or erratically while trying to provide adequate food for their children, which may contribute to obesity.

Children living in food-insecure households had an increased risk of behavioral problems, according to a study conducted in Australia. Children in food-insecure households also were 25% to 40% less likely to get the recommended amount of fruit and 15% to 25% less likely to get the recommended amount of vegetables, the study found.